Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $68.80, with 3.39 million shares of worth about $233.27 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 46.45% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 35.67%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 83.84M shares, out of which, 39.23M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 178 times over the past 12 months. They bought 65,060 shares in 83 of the transactions. In 95 selling transactions, insiders dumped 32,430 shares.
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Stock saw a price change of 38.26% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 48.76%. Year-to-date (YTD), PEGA shares are showing a performance of 40.81% which increased to 73.65% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $37.66 but also hit the highest price of $59.23 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Pegasystems Inc. shares is 367.64K. The stock is currently trading 40.68% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 40.48% for SMA50 and it goes to 44.52% higher than SMA200.
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA) currently have 83.84M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 42.66% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $5.75B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.00. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 97.24, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.71 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.53 and has Quick Ratio of 1.78 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.64. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PEGA, volatility over the week remained 5.69% while standing at 3.27% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $1 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.57 and it is $2.43 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.7 which is $1.3 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.82 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 8.09% while it is estimated to increase by 17.47% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 63.60% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 44.26% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Barclays on January 12, 2024 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $52 to it.
